We need a Gandalf to stand astride the Bridge of Khazad Dum.
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After all, Disney and Netflix now stand astride the plains of streaming media like two great stags.
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The Lannisters stand astride the country like colossi, but their power is mostly illusory — they mostly gain it from trampling everybody.
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Globalism is an ideology of winners who stand astride our society as it is being remade by dramatic economic, demographic and cultural changes.
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Though Staples and Office Depot stand astride the industry of selling paper clips and Post-it notes to businesses, the two retailers have suffered from the rise of e-commerce giant Amazon.
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I'm standing inside The Glass House, architect Philip Johnson's iconic mid-century estate in suburban Connecticut, watching combat boot-clad women stand astride men crawling on all fours like beasts of burden, and the contrast is kind of funny.
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Some in Washington continue to argue that "benevolent global hegemony" should be the goal of our foreign policy, that the US, by virtue of its extraordinary military power, should stand astride the world and reshape it to its liking.
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The archetype of the New Woman that took hold at the precipice of the twentieth century is another clear influence: as ladies stand astride bikes, hold each other in intimate embraces, or playfully pop out of pre-cut newspaper pages.
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It was built c. 1879, and was one of the first community buildings to be built in the area. Intended to actually stand astride the county line (since it served communities in both counties), a later survey determined it lies a few feet within Fulton County. The building was used as a school until 1948, when the local school systems were consolidated.
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The 1004 The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp collection of hagiographies for Chinese Chan and Japanese Zen monks attributes the first stanza to the Sōtō Zen Tang dynasty patriarch Yaoshan Weiyan (745-827). An old Buddha said: For the time being, I stand astride the highest mountain peaks. For the time being, I move on the deepest depths of the ocean floor. For the time being, I'm three heads and eight arms [of an Asura fighting demon].
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One of the many versions of a certain tale regarding his creation of the staff method takes place during the Yuan-era Red Turban Rebellion. Bandits lay siege to the monastery, but it is saved by a lowly kitchen worker wielding a long fire poker as a makeshift staff. He leaps into the oven and emerges as a monstrous giant big enough to stand astride both Mount Song and the imperial fort atop Mount Shaoshi (which are five miles apart). The bandits flee when they behold this staff-wielding titan.
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I had the very good fortune to photograph Norman Barrett just minutes before he was about to entertain another capacity audience at Zippos Circus. Norman Barrett is a veteran British circus ringmaster who made many appearances on television, notably with Charlie Cairoli in the children's television series Right Charlie. He is well known for his act with performing budgerigars. As a younger man, he was a bareback rider, famous for his Ben Hurr act where he would stand astride two horses while others ran in the opposite direction between his legs.
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It passes directly under many settlements on the West Coast of the South Island and shaking from a rupture would likely affect many cities and towns throughout the country. The rapid uplift and high erosion rates within the Southern Alps combine to expose high grade greenschist to amphibolite facies rocks, including the gemstone pounamu (jade). Geologists visiting the West Coast can easily access high-grade metamorphic rocks and mylonites associated with the Alpine Fault, and in certain places can stand astride the fault trace of an active plate boundary. Fiordland is dominated by steep, glacier-carved valleys To the south of New Zealand the Indo-Australian Plate is subducting under the Pacific Plate, and this is beginning to result in back-arc volcanism.
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Behind it are two men in threatening postures, one is waving a long stick like the handle of a brush or rake, the other probably a besom broom (blurred). Two more men wearing military-looking jackets, buttoned to the neck, and white trousers stand astride small hobbyhorses of an apparently unique design: a cylindrical body, "about three inches diameter and two feet long", held between the rider's legs (supported at the front by a cord or narrow strap around the rider's neck), with a flat, curved wooden neck and a small, stylised head with snapping jaws (apart from their mouths, the horses look almost like simple rocking horses with the legs removed). The horsemen are masked in light-coloured cloth. Another character wears a rather voluminous, tattered, long, dark dress; busily brushing the ground with a besom broom, "she" is reminiscent of the character Besom Bet who appears in some mummers plays.
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Two men wearing military-looking jackets, buttoned to the neck, and white trousers stand astride small hobby horses of an apparently unique design: a cylindrical body, "about three inches diameter and two feet long",Cawte, EC, Ritual Animal Disguise, p121, London, DS Brewer for the Folklore Society (1978) held between the rider's legs (supported at the front by a cord or narrow strap around the rider's neck), with a flat, curved wooden neck and a small, stylised head with snapping jaws (apart from their mouths, the horses look almost like simple rocking horses with the legs removed). The horsemen are faceless: their heads are wrapped in light-coloured cloth. The performers are grouped around a "mast horse" with a shiny black head made from a skull (with ears attached and a large eyeball in its white- painted eye socket) set on a short pole. It is operated by a person who crouches under a blanket, attached to the back of the skull, that hides most of the pole.
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